When I found this movie on youtube, I wasn't sure what to expect of it but I thought that it would be just another low-budget film glamorizing the hippie counterculture. Actually, Maybe I'll Come Home In the Spring is more so a movie about how a young girl's parents tried their best, but their ignorance drove her away and when she came home, the cycle was repeated all over again. Some scenes in it just stuck with me a long time, especially the one where Dennie seems to be going crazy, swimming repeatedly back and forth in her parents' swimming pool despite all her neighbors and friends yelling at her to stop. There were other scenes which show the reality of the hippie lifestyle. I mean, let's face it, hippies weren't all rainbows and flowers and unicorns and peace, some of them were just hobos, runaways and confused teens, rebels, protesters, outcasts of society who thought being a hippie would help them. But a lot of hippies were homeless, living in outdoor parks and makeshift tents and dumpster diving for food, begging for spare change as a living. Really though, the one who suffers the most in this movie is Dennie's sister, Susie, who wants to be a hippie and dreams of a free spirit lifestyle of drugs and endless fun but doesn't realize that things aren't always what they seem when she meets Dennie's ex-boyfriend.
This is definitely a movie that stays with you once you watch it, and I also recommend watching Go Ask Alice (1973) and Helter Skelter (1976) if you like this movie.
This is definitely a movie that stays with you once you watch it, and I also recommend watching Go Ask Alice (1973) and Helter Skelter (1976) if you like this movie.